This board certified family medicine specialist has remained in active practice for over 20 years. He earned a BS and MD from Temple University and has spent the majority of his career in an ER and Urgent Care setting. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is currently an ER physician at a major healthcare center in Pennsylvania....
On April 30, 2021, the Kansas Supreme court handed down a decision upholding a ban against wrongful birth lawsuits aimed at practitioners. The decision affirms lower courts’ verdicts against a couple who sought damages upon learning of their baby’s serious…
Co-authored by Carrie M. Babiasz Family law is an area of law involving issues and disputes that may arise from familial or other personal relationships, including domestic partnerships, civil unions, and marriages. The area of family law is quite broad, encompassing…
In this case, a female patient suffered serious complications after giving birth to her first child. The patient, a 35 year old woman with no significant medical history, had recently given birth to a baby boy after a delivery complicated…
In 2001, decedent’s Pap smear results indicated a low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion. Her obstetrician ordered a colposcopy and an endocervical curettage, which were both normal. A few months later, another Pap smear reported as atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance/favor…
This case involves a thirty-five year-old female patient with a past medical history of three prior first trimester miscarriages and in-vitro fertilization treatment. The patient began experiencing classic symptoms of early pregnancy including amenorrhea, nausea and vomiting. The patient took…
This case involves a thirty-two-year-old female who became pregnant and wished to terminate the pregnancy and induce an abortion immediately after hearing the results of a serum pregnancy test. The patient took the prescribed medical abortion pills and presented for…
This case involves a twenty-nine-year-old female who had retained products of conception (RPOC) following her delivery.  The delivery was complicated by chorioamnionitis.  The treating physician failed to recognize the RPOC for two weeks, resulting in a severe. As a result, the provider…
This case involves a fifty-eight-year-old female patient who presented to her OBGYN complaining of post-menopausal bleeding. The patient underwent a failed dilation and curettage by a previous physician who told her that she had a thickened endometrial stripe. The patient…
This case involves a twenty-five-year-old female patient who presented to a local hospital for an induced elective abortion. At the time of the procedure, the patient was approximately fifteen weeks pregnant and, according to the medical note, it was conducted…
This case involves a thirty-seven-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency room complaining of chronic back pain in the lower lumbar region. She suffered the injury after undergoing a dilation and curettage procedure. The patient stated that the pain…
This case involves a twenty-five-year-old female who was using an IUD, but became pregnant and wished to terminate her pregnancy. She had three visits with her doctors who recommended a medical abortion. The patient took the prescribed pills and came…
